Mediating Religion: Studies in Media, Religion, and Culture

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Jolyon P. Mitchell, Sophia Marriage
A&C Black, 01/06/2003 - 407 páginas
This is the first book to bring together many aspects of the interplay between religion, media and culture from around the world in a single comprehensive study. Leading international scholars provide the most up-to-date findings in their fields, and in a readable and accessible way.Some of the topics covered include religion in the media age, popular broadcasting, communication theology, popular piety, film and religion, myth and ritual in cyberspace, music and religion, communication ethics, and the nature of truth in media saturated cultures.The result is not only a wide-ranging resource for scholars and students, but also a unique introduction to this increasingly important phenomenon of modern life.

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Introduction
1
Theory and Method
9
An Ethnographic Study
21
English Catholics the News
33
Managing or Manipulating Religious Conflict in the Nigerian Media
47
Becoming
65
Islam and the American News Media post September 11
73
The Media of Popular Piety
83
The Catholic Church and its Attitude to Film as an Arbiter
179
Sin and Salvation
201
Internet Religion and the Attribution of Social Trust
229
Myth and Ritual in Cyberspace
257
Electronic Media and the PastFuture of Christianity
271
The Emerging Communitarian Ethics of Public
285
Foundation of Communication in Islamic Societies
305
A Brief Look at the Ethics of Broadcasting
329

Music Media Religion and Culture
93
Protestant Visual Piety and the Aesthetics of American
107
Considerations on the Negotiation
121
Practising Attention in Media Culture
133
The Communication Formation of Church Leaders as
159
Media Ethics
353
Film and Religion
369
Name Index
385
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Dr. Jolyon P. Mitchell lectures in Theology and Media at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Dr. Jolyon P. Mitchell lectures in Theology and Media at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Dr. Sophia Marriage is a research worker with the Church of Scotland.

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